I have a problem, probably of my own making. I started a docker machine on digital ocean with an API token, which I generated, but I didn’t save the token, stupidly. The DigitalOcean UI doesn’t seem to allow the displaying of this token, so I created a new one. But I can’t seem to get rid of the docker machine I created on DigitalOcean, at least as far as my local docker-machine is concerned. I think this is because I’m no longer using the token that I used to start the machine. I’ve deleted the machine via DigitalOcean’s UI, but I still get this on my machine:
Bills-New-iMac:~ bwright $ docker-machine ls NAME ACTIVE DRIVER STATE URL SWARM DOCKER ERRORS consul - digitalocean Running tcp://104.236.28.74:2376 v1.13.1 docker-app-machine - digitalocean Error Unknown GET https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/droplets/40085932: 401 Unable to authenticate you. Bills-New-iMac:~ bwright $ docker-machine kill docker-app-machine Killing “docker-app-machine”… POST https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/droplets/40085932/actions: 401 Unable to authenticate you. Bills-New-iMac:~ bwright $ docker-machine rm docker-app-machine About to remove docker-app-machine WARNING: This action will delete both local reference and remote instance. Are you sure? (y/n): y Error removing host “docker-app-machine”: DELETE https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/account/keys/6462501: 401 Unable to authenticate you. Bills-New-iMac:~ bwright $ docker-machine ls NAME ACTIVE DRIVER STATE URL SWARM DOCKER ERRORS consul - digitalocean Running tcp://104.236.28.74:2376 v1.13.1 docker-app-machine - digitalocean Error Unknown GET https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/droplets/40085932: 401 Unable to authenticate you. Bills-New-iMac:~ bwright $
Any thoughts on how I can clean up the mess I made?
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You probably figured that out already, by now. Anyway, at the time of this writing, docker-machine’s local configuration is stored here: ~/.docker/machine/machines/ So, to clean that up, go there, get a list and remove the ‘docker-app-machine’ entry. It works in my machine :-)
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